Insurer Analysis – Page 45
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Growth – Schemes and specialisms set to boom this year
Customer demand will drive brokers to become more innovative in 2015, working with insurers to design specialist schemes and products for new and emerging risks.Managing general agency (MGA) UK General’s schemes managing director Karen Beales said brokers’ ability to identify and sell to niche customers was ...
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Growth – SMEs boom, but can they sustain it?
As the UK economy bounces back, brokers are looking to small businesses to generate organic growth. But is the recovery losing momentum and is growth more likely to come from acquisition in the short term?
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Growth – Customer growth and prices key
Competition that drove premiums down unlikely to be a factor as economy recovers and customers return
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The KnowledgeStopping application fraud at the door
One in five motor insurance applications contain ‘an element of contention’, according to the AA. Now the ABI is determined to calculate an accurate figure for the cost of application fraud
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NewsThe new-look Pool Re: what you need to know
The Insurance Times guide to the planned changes to the terrorism reinsurance scheme
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Online onlyRevealed: The incredible story of collapsed unrated insurer Millburn
From the collapsed banking system of Cyprus to the Comoros Islands off East Africa, an Insurance Times investigation reveals all on the first insurer to fall on the PRA’s watch
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Online onlyAre Gibraltar insurers over-reliant on ancillary income?
Insurance Times study shows that some insurers see big swings in COR if non-risk income is removed
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Online onlyIs the London insurance market doomed?
London’s commercial insurance market is still the world’s biggest, but Insurance Times’s sister publication GR finds that questions remain about its future
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AgendaBriefing: Towergate in crisis – the endgame is approaching
With the news that Gallagher has stopped placing new business with the troubled consolidator, a deal to sort out the business is now more pressing than ever
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Online onlyLaurent Matras: Embracing data at AXA
The insurer’s personal lines intermediary managing director Laurent Matras enthuses about its strategy and the use of data to improve underwriting
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Online onlyThe Insurance Times Fraud Report 2014
The Insurance Times Fraud Report 2014 is the second annual supplement dedicated entirely to insurance fraud. It is a must-read for anyone working in the industry. Highlights include the latest fraud statistics and trends, an interview with Transport Select Committee chairwoman Louise Ellman, the results of an exclusive industry-wide survey, ...
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NewsIBSC chair under the spotlight
Six months in, IBSC chairman Paul Anscombe answers the tough questions everybody wants to know about the standards body
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Online onlyTen things we learned from insurers’ nine-month results
Bodily injury claims, motor rates and commercial growth were on chief executives’ minds as they reported their latest figures
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Online onlyInvestigation: Gibraltarian insurers in Solvency 2 capital battle
Some companies are trading below their minimum required solvency margin, while others still have work to do to beef up
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NewsBroker Service Survey reveals brokers' favourite insurers
Subscribers can access full rankings for commercial and personal lines
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NewsGetting under the skin of the global M&A insurance market
Ten London Market executives discuss why 95% of M&A deals are not insured
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AgendaHow the buying strategies of Asian insurers compare to the rest of the world
Insurance Times’s sister title GR takes a look at why (re)insurance purchasing strategies in Asia vary from other markets
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AgendaBriefing: The story behind Direct Line's shrinking business
Insurer’s third-quarter results, just released, show premium falling once more. Should DLG be worried?
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Online onlyReserve releases drive personal lines profit
Part two of Insurance Times’s study of PRA returns reveals underlying personal motor performance woes. Financial loss provided stand-out profitability, with a combined operating ratio of 85.3%
